How to format your references using the Language Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Language Policy. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Kreeger, K. (2002). Training programmes with vision. Nature, 417(6887), 5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Funk, J. L., & Vitousek, P. M. (2007). Resource-use efficiency and plant invasion in low-resource systems. Nature, 446(7139), 1079–1081.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tobler, P. N., Fiorillo, C. D., & Schultz, W. (2005). Adaptive coding of reward value by dopamine neurons. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5715), 1642–1645.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pätzold, M., Andert, T. P., Asmar, S. W., Anderson, J. D., Barriot, J.-P., Bird, M. K., et al. (2011). Asteroid 21 Lutetia: low mass, high density. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6055), 491–492.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Chandler, C. (2010). The Science of ADHD. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Syed, K. T. (Ed.). (2012). Through White Noise: Autonarrative Exploration of Racism, Discrimination, and the Doorways to Academic Citizenship in Canada (Vol. 87). Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Esteves Verssimo, P., Gönczy, L., Csertán, G., Urbanics, G., Ghani, H., Khelil, A., & Suri, N. (2012). Monitoring and Evaluation of Semantic Rooms. In R. Baldoni & G. Chockler (Eds.), Collaborative Financial Infrastructure Protection: Tools, Abstractions, and Middleware (pp. 99–116). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Language Policy.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, August 31). The Brains Of Amputees Remember Their Lost Limbs For Decades. IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. (2014). Railroad Retirement Board: Total and Permanent Disability Program at Risk of Improper Payments (No. GAO-14-418). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Forshey, T. M. (2013). Neural basis of the neurological diagnostic power of vibrotactile sensory testing (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Winerip, M., Schwirtz, M., & Robbins, T. (2016, April 11). New York State Taking on Union of Prison Guards. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Kreeger 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Funk and Vitousek 2007; Kreeger 2002).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Funk and Vitousek 2007)
Three or more authors: (Pätzold et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Language Policy
Abbreviation	Lang. Policy
ISSN (print)	1568-4555
ISSN (online)	1573-1863
Scope	Language and Linguistics Linguistics and Language Sociology and Political Science